John Cornelius Asbury

John Cornelius Asbury (1862–1941) was a lawyer and state legislator in Pennsylvania.[1][2][3] A Republican, he served two terms in the Pennsylvania General Assembly in the 1920s and sponsored civil rights bills.

Isaac E. Asbury was his brother. He studied at Washington and Jefferson College[4] and received a law degree from Howard University in 1885.[1] He served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1921 to 1924.[5] He authored civil rights bills in the Pennsylvania General Assembly and founded Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania for African Americans.[1][6]

He married Kate E. Allen in 1886. She died in 1898, and he married Ida Elizabeth Bowser in 1901 and they had a son David Bowser Asbury.[4][7]

He supported Dowingtown School and Mercy Hospital.[4]

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References
  1. "Political Capital · Goin' North". goinnorth.org.
  2. "Negro Yearbook". Department of Records and Research, Tuskegee Institute. February 18, 1925 – via Google Books.
  3. https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/download/25297/25066/25136
  4. "John Cornelius Asbury". The Journal of Negro History. 26 (4): 550–551. October 1, 1941. doi:10.1086/JNHv26n4p550. S2CID 224842187 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
  5. "John Cornelius Asbury". Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  6. "*John Cornelius Asbury - Asbury Equal Rights Bill". April 4, 1931. p. 10 – via newspapers.com.
  7. "Ida Elizabeth (Bowser) Asbury". University Archives and Records Center.


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